Rebecca Solomon Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Strategic advisor for ideation and development of content, knowledge sharing and learning initiatives for 45+ global and regional teams on topics of disruptive technologies in urban development social inclusion and disaster risk reduction of natural hazards and climate change. - Streamline department wide knowledge exchange, accessible organization wide by using online tools and offline activities. Organized a 4-day virtual conference for over 600 global staff; facilitated a weeklong onsite deep technical learning conference in Japan for 10 client country governments and captured critical expert insights through short video interviews for reuse aiding in further project collaborations.- Community network, online and offline activity data modeling to assess community growth, impact and ROI: Built a knowledge content and learning impact framework including a matrix of KPIs aiding teams in strategic planning and collaboratively develop qualitative and actionable recommendations.- Spearheaded the delivery and adaption of an interactive cloud-based knowledge content ecosystem through SharePoint averaging about 40% more monthly usage than other business units, which promoted cross-functional and online collaboration, results include several teams initiating a joint global program with 2.40M funding supporting 105 cities in over 50 countries. Optimized the digital knowledge base through standardized indexing and keyword tagging best practices and drove adoption through training which positively impacted process improvement by 60% across 45 teams. - Delivered data driven timely knowledge products: web-based updates on COVID-19 aid delivery for 33 countries; interactive dashboard to sort and access 136 project resources from 63 countries; established a weekly internal newsletter with about 1500 subscribers and a 64% open rate.

Greater New York City Area

Cofounded and Established the US Chapter for a young and upcoming charity to provide educational aid to underprivileged children. Check us out at www.kidsrok.org- Built a global organization in Sweden, USA & India including start and head the USA chapter.- Strategy, marketing, team and community building across all three chapters. - Exceeding fundraising goal each year including $12,000 in the first-year exceeding goal of $10,000.- Completed an infrastructure project in rural India including stabilized dormitories and the first toilet in the community.- Spearheaded a flood relief effort in Chennai, India: provided aid to 250 children with basic needs during limited connectivity.- Support after school tutoring and student engagement projects in India.

Greater New York City Area

- Developed a social network analysis (SNA) framework to understand collaboration in the firm. - Developed scorecards for each business unit to benchmark collaboration against other businesses.- Identified low collaboration demographics / business unites for initiative to improve collaboration. - Created and used advanced Microsoft Excel dashboards for data analysis. - Created frameworks to correlate collaboration to business impacts

Columbia University Medical Center

- Successful crisis management twice to overcome instrumentation malfunction for 2.5 months halting in-house production.- Creative scheduling to engage team during peak season to handle high volumes of projects without extra work hours.- Coach and train personnel to work independently within 60 days.- Effective client support for troubleshooting, best practice suggestions for optimal results and accommodate express projects without other project delays.- Lean operations with limited resources including instrumentation and analysis support. - Confirming enterprise wide executive buy-in for optimal technology upgrades saving $50,000.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

- Developed and scaled a high-throughput workflow, which was published in the Molecular Cloning book 4th Edition, 2012.- Supervised a team of four on a large scale project to identify hereditary markers in cognitive disorders including schizophrenia. - Lead the new hire onboarding, training and intern mentoring programs.

Stony Brook University

- Spearheaded an independent research study on the infectious mechanisms of black plaque bacterium working closely with the principal investigator. - Handled the laboratory operations and project scheduling. - Mentored interns and coached new hires.

- Led the campaign coordination of volunteers on the campaign trail and door to door promotion. - Administrated the payroll for the campaign activities. - Advised the marketing team on promotional and creative strategies. - Established the tone and content as a speech writer for the candidate.

- Provided customer service- Cataloging of books and media - Maintained order in the study areas.

Master'S Degree, Information Knowledge And Strategy

User Experience And User Interface Design, Ux/Ui Design Fellow

Bachelor Of Science, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Honor Program, Stony Brook Culinary Club